Dr. Khairudin Aljunied (PhD, SOAS, University of London) is a tenured Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and a Senior Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. He previously served as the Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia at Georgetown and has held visiting professorships at institutions including Columbia University (USA) as a Fulbright Scholar in 2013, the University of Brunei Darussalam (2021–2022), and the University of Malaya (2022–2023). In 2024-2025, he was listed among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World.
A recognized expert in intellectual history, Dr. Aljunied’s research explores connections between Southeast Asia and global Islam. He is the author or editor of thirteen books and over thirty peer-reviewed articles. His recent works include Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Hamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World (Cornell University Press, 2018), Islam in Malaysia: An Entwined History (Oxford University Press, 2019), and Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2022). His forthcoming book, Contemplating Sufism: Dialogue and Tradition Across Southeast Asia, will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2024.